Evaluation

You will be evaluated on your performance as an individual and as a group. Remember to work together as a team. Your story and final newspaper front page will be graded as follows:

Individual: Story developed about patriot.

Beginning

1

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary

4

Score

 

Organization

 
Information is unorganized; many grammatical and spelling errors.
Information is fairly well organized with more than 3 typographical errors.
Information is organized in some manner; few typographical errors
Information is well organized; no typographical errors.

 

Amount of Information Gathered

 

 
Very brief entry provided with little description of topics and only one or two topics addressed
Brief entry with most topics addressed
Topic covered with two or three short sentences; all topics addressed
topic covered with detailed information and all of the issues are addressed

 

Quality of Information Gathererd

 

 
Information does not address topic
Information has little to do with the topic.
Information is given with ome supporting details
Information is given with supporting details and examples

 

Role

 
Information was not accurate
Information gathered was very brief and inaccurate
Information gathered held relevance to the topic
Information gathered was relevant and accurate to the topic.

 

Required Elements
Student included less information than required
Student included most information than was required
Student included all information that was required
Student included more information than was required

 

Group Evaluation: Introduction, Time Line and Newpaper Design

 

Beginning

1

Developing

2

Accomplished

3

Exemplary

4

Score

 

Group Work

 
Group is unorganized and does not work as a cohesive unit, lacking in communication and team cooperation.
Group is unorganized and has trouble deciding on final edits.
Group works cooperativley to get an end product; the teamwork and cooperation is apparent.
Group works very well together, stays on constant task and the final product shows the successfulness of the teamwork.

 

Discussion

 

 
The groups' discussion is unorganized, thoughts and ideas are not addressed or well-expressed and a unsatisfactory conclusion.
Group discusses material in an inconsistent manner; can slightly reach a conclusion on how the end product should look.
Group quietly discusses the material given and researched infor that will be put into the newsletter.
Group diligently and quietly discusses the material to reasearch on the contributions of each role in an effecient manner.

 

Newsletter

 

 
Newsletter shows lack of preparation, requirements for newsletter are not met and information was not accurate.
Information presented in teh newsletter has little to do with the topic and is reported randomly.
Newsletter shows prepartation, requirements are met and information is presetned in an efficient manner.
Newsletter shows prepation, requirements are met and information is presented in an appealing, orderly and thorough manner.